Can someone tell me what traffic runs on the management port? I am installing vsphere 5.1 with 3 hosts, vmotion, and iscsi disk san.I plan to segregate the management traffic on a closed 1 Gb network in which the management ports will connect to a 1 Gb switch which will have one port connected to the global network. Does vMotion utilize this this port heavily for its activities?
The cluster will be lightly loaded with only 8 to 10 vm's accross all 3 four processor quadcore hosts.
I plan to connect the iscsi san with 10Gb nic cards and dedicated switch.
If I needed to I could use a 10G switch for the management network.
The individual vm's will have individual 1Gb nic interfaces to the main network where needed.
If you could point me to documents that would also be appreceiated.
any thoughts would be appreciated.
thanks
Ken